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10 volumes, the major source and inspiration for Ruskins The Bible of Amiens, a combination of religious exposition and architectural history. This set was probably taken to France by Ruskin as there is a sketch of tracery in pencil on a flyleaf in volume 6, dated Beauvais 1888.

Previously unknown to scholars, this is the farewell address of the first director of the RCM, whose wise guidance from 1882 soon made the College an important part of the musical life of the nation

Acquired together with a sketch book with drawings by Lady Frances Elizabeth Compton, presumably the pupil of JC Nattes.

Four beautifully illustrated notebooks, containing a fair copy of the Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views ... illustrated by scenes of the New-Forest in Hampshire, published in 1791.

The papers of J Horsfall Turner, an early Bronte scholar and founding member of the Bronte Society.

34 maps surveyed by Richard Davis, Topographer to George III. All are coloured and elaborately detailed, and bound together, they have the appearance of a fair copy as opposed to a working survey. Grant from the Esme Fairbairn Charitable Trust. Illustrated at p.30 of AR

375 drawings, representing the bulk of Preedys output. He was the only 19th century architect of the gothic revival to be a competent designer and manufacturer of stained glass and he was used by William Burges and William Butterfield in their building projects. ILlustrated at p.46 of AR

18 boxes of Manuscript letters, journals and associated papers, relating to the life and work of the Rev. John Clarke and his circle of Baptist pastors and missionaries.

130 pages written in pencil throughout, containing material for the poem Sponsa Dei, with prose aphorisms, notes to himself and snatches of verse

An autograph volume describing travels on the Upper Nile, three years residence in Ethiopia and return via Khartoum. Highly detailed on local cusoms and cultures: Parkyns married an Ethiopian during his travels.